Sean “Diddy” Combs is set to be sentenced following a high profile trial over the summer that ended in two guilty verdicts and an acquittal on three others – including a racketeering charge that could have left him in prison potentially for life. Robert Mintz, a former federal prosecutor and chair of McCarter’s Government Investigations and White Collar Defense Group spoke with the BBC about the racketeering charges noting, that to be successful, prosecutors needed to prove the rapper established a coordinated plan with at least one other person to commit at least two crimes over a span of several years. “It’s a very complicated charge, used typically in the past in organized crime prosecution,” he said, adding it is unsurprising that this charge gave the jury the most difficulty.
10.3.2025